[Open-bio-l] GMOD Satellite Meetings, March 7, NESCent, Durham, NC

[Dave Clements]

Hello all,

Yesterday, we opened registration for the March 2011 GMOD Meeting (see
http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/March_2011_GMOD_Meeting).  *That meeting is part
of a larger event, GMOD Americas 2011, that also includes several Satellite
Meetings on March 7*, the day after the meeting ends.

Satellite meetings are smaller groups of people meeting to discuss a common
interest, or work on a common problem (think special interest groups /
birds-of-a-feather).  Unlike the GMOD Meeting, there is *no registration fee
* for the Satellites, and you don't even need to go to any other GMOD
Americas events to participate in the Satellites.  *If you are in the area,
or attending other GMOD Americas events, or are just very interested in the
topic, we strongly encourage you to attend.*

The current list of Satellites (see
http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/Satellite_Meetings_-_GMOD_Americas_2011)
includes:

   - *GMOD Evo Hackathon
Followup*<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/GMOD_Evo_Hackathon#March_2011_Satellite>,
   organized by Duke Leto <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/User:Dukeleto>.  A
   followup to the GMOD Evo
Hackathon<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/GMOD_Evo_Hackathon>held at
NESCent in November 2011.  You didn't to participate in the original
   event to participate in this followup.  Also, if there is interest, this
   satellite can extend for more than one day.
   - *Customizing and Extending JBrowse<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/JBrowse>
   *, organized by Mitch Skinner<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/User:MitchSkinner>
   .  JBrowse <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/JBrowse> has a few different
   extension points, but they're not (yet) well-documented or widely used. The
   GMOD meeting would be a good time to review those
APIs<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/Glossary#API>,
   relate them to the things that people want to do with them, discuss any
   potential changes or new APIs to support specific use cases, and potentially
   start to implement an extension.
   - *GMOD Web services toolkit* <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/GMOD_RPC_API>,
   organized by Josh Goodman <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/User:Jogoodma>.  Come
   to work on or discuss the GMOD Web services API and the
toolkit<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/GMOD_RPC_API>
   .
   - *GMOD in the Sequencing
Center*<http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/GMOD_in_the_Sequencing_Center>,
   organized by  Chris Hemmerich <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/User:Chemmeri>,
   Dave Clements <http://gmod.oicr.on.ca/wiki/User:Clements>.  Sequencing
   centers have tremendous bioinformatics needs that GMOD can help address.
   Attend this satellite to find out what other sequencing centers are doing
   with GMOD, and how GMOD can help you help your researchers.

If you are interested in participating in these, please contact the
organizers, and/or add your name to the satellite's participants list on the
wiki.

Satellites can be organized by anyone.  If you have a topic you would like
to cover, please add it to the list and announce it the appropriate mailing
lists.  Several previous satellites are written up on the GMOD wiki, if you
want an idea of what happens at a satellite.

Finally, please let me and Scott know if you have any questions.

Thanks, and hope to see you in March!

Dave C.
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